Stages of a Relationship:
Reasons to Get Married:
Formalize your Vows

We can tell each other we love each other thousands of times - but the words take on an entire new meaning when we say them as part of a permanent, legal, religious, seen-by-all marriage vow.

It's like when you are trying to lose weight or do something good for yourself, and you stick a note on your mirror to read every day - and get your family and friends to encourage you. Sure, it's nice just to tell yourself it. But by writing it down, making it public and standing up beside that vow, you are giving it creedence and weight. And you are enlisting your support system to help you really make this work.